Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1917 — BROOK [ARTICLE]

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(From the, Reporter) G. L. Thornton of Rensselaer was a Brook visitor Monday. The 'Misses Leopold and Ames of Rensselaer wore guests of Mrs. Ben Leopold Friday. Quite a number of corn husking, machines will be tried out in this section this fall. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Mayhew motored to Kingman Sunday to Visit Mr. and Mrs. E. L. James. Pius linger and wife left the first of the week to visit relatives at Hartford, Michigan. John Sell and family went to Bourbon Wednesday to visit Ford Sell and wife and see the new baby girl. Job English visited his Peru farm this week. He says things are looking fine and not much evidence of frost'. . - •- Vernon TTrey of . Andrews, Indiana, was here over Sunday visiting big grandmother, Mrs. Sawyer, and other relatives., Chan McCabe and family, Bernard James and family and Otto Mayhew and wife motored to Turkey Run Sunday and spent the day.

• Crailes Dexter and wife, who have been Visiting Lee Lowe and family for some time, started for their home in California Monday. They will stop in lowa and visit relatives for a short time. John B. Foresman, Jr., exhibited a big ear of corn which came from his Jasper county farm. It was raised by Lee Clark. It measured 12 34 inches long and nine inches in circumference, and weighed 234 pounds. William Ulyatt brought a stalk of corn to town last Wednesday that .showed three fully developed ears and one good-sized nubbin. With these well-eared Stalks in numbers it will be hard to tell how much this corn will yield per acre. Mrs. Howard Myers and Mrs. John Lawrence attended the State Board of Charities meeting at Laporte the first of the week. While there they were taken to visit the penitentiary at Michigan City and the Julia Work school for girls at Plymouth, Indiana. Jim Heistand piloted the. editor to the fishing grounds Saturday and we spent the day on the river. We returned in the evening with twenty bass, bluegills and croppies. Merle Penny and Cal Statesman picked up strings equally as large, and Frank Davis came home with six wall-eyed, pike and a bass or two. .

Mrs. Myers and Mrs. Longwell were up near Morocco Friday looking after a group of six children who had recently lost their mother. The family was Italian and numbered seven from fifteen months to ten years of age. Arrangements are being made to place them in some Catholic institution for orphan children. Uncle John Foresman was passing the cigars to his friends Friday. He had reached the age of eighty-five years on that day and said he felt better than he did last year at this same time. Very few meh fit. his age take such active interest in affairs of business and pleasure. Every morning he takes a drive to his farm in his car, and he.goes whenever he likes and wherever he likes. All the work on the place receives his attention just, as usual. He has set his mark at the century and we believe he will reach it. Lige Esson of Peotone was here the first of the week looking after his farm interests. He met Schuyler Jones, who was at one time a partner in the hardware business with Jack Esson, Lige’s brother. Mr. Esson recalled the -strenuous days of that period and said that at one time Jones and Jack had but one hat between them and only one of them could leave the store at a time. Jack, who was somewhat restless in disposition, couldn’t stand this and finally sold out so that he could get into business where he could have/a full set of clothes of his own.